Gigabyte GA-M720-US3

Performance Results


Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 39% Jet ski	Workstation 2% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 34.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	8.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	14.4% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 (all builds)
Memory	2.1 GB free of 4 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20090819
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 07 '17 at 13:00
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X2 550 3,836 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Socket M2, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 1.4 GHz, turbo 1.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	34.6% Below average	Memory 62.9 1-Core 20.3 2-Core 40.4 30% 41.2 Pts	4-Core 40.2 8-Core 40.4 5% 40.3 Pts	64-Core 40.3 2% 40.3 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 51%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Nvidia(10DE 0973) 1GB CLim: 1058 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	8.9% Terrible	Lighting 9.93 Reflection 9.12 Parallax 11.4 8% 10.2 fps	MRender 13.4 Gravity 12 Splatting 12.9 10% 12.8 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 8.9% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 112 63482187 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -14912126443688 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1518 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1007 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 54 30068310046 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 63482187 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 63482187 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 63482187 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7461 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7474 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7474 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10292	14.4% Very poor	Read 95.5 Write 90.7 Mixed 93.7 21% 93.3 MB/s	4K Read 5.88 4K Write 6.28 4K Mixed 3.7 17% 5.29 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 83%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 377GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 139 3858 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5791 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8123 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3222 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 357 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5433 (C2) HDA temperature 111 99 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	45.6% Average	Read 101 Write 57.7 Mixed 61.6 55% 73.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.23 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.1 33% 0.33 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 69%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 269GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 139 3866 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6195 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8909 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3247 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 510 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5684 (C2) HDA temperature 108 95 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	44.3% Average	Read 91.4 Write 63 Mixed 68 56% 74.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 0.69 4K Mixed 0.13 40% 0.37 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x1GB 54,972 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 4 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	19.5% Very poor	MC Read 7.2 MC Write 5.3 MC Mixed 6.9 18% 6.47 GB/s	SC Read 5 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 4.9 14% 5.07 GB/s	Latency 119 34% 119 ns
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 19.5% Great: 28%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 20%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M720-US3

CPU
Phenom II X4 955AMD $83Bench 51%, 41,403 samples	5x
Athlon II X2 250 (2013 D.Ri)AMDBench 40%, 19,471 samples	4x
Phenom II X4 965AMD $144Bench 53%, 43,442 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	3x
GeForce 9800 GTNvidiaBench 5%, 19,550 samples	2x
GTX 650 Ti BoostNvidia $140Bench 17%, 15,701 samples	2x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
WDS1 20G2G0A-00JH 120GBWDCBench 39%, 6 samples	3x
Burst 480GBPatriotBench 76%, 16,899 samples	3x

RAM
4x2GBUnknownBench 25%, 183,252 samples	17x
2x2GBUnknownBench 20%, 446,702 samples	12x
3x2GBUnknownBench 30%, 45,030 samples	5x

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Total price: $311

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16